Reality TV

This new show doesn’t premiere on MTV until August 25^th, but they’re already running the trailers, and, I have to admit, it looks promising to this sick viewer.  From the MTV web site:

Watching My Super Sweet 16 can give us a glimpse of “the good life.” Amidst the demanding divas and epic meltdowns that lead up to insanely over-the-top teenage birthday bashes, we get a look at the posh lives of wealthy families. And while we take that often envious look at how the other half lives, how many of us sit there wishing that these spoiled teens could be slapped with a serious dose of reality?

Wish no more, because they’re about to get Exiled! Fed up with their seemingly endless mooching, their parents have had enough of this Sweet 16 set and are ready to send them away to learn the lesson of a lifetime. They’ve arranged to place their children in remote parts of the world with host families who have never tasted anything close to the high society life.

So basically, some of the teens who were spoiled with uber-fabulous parties on My Super Sweet Sixteen (including Amanda, Sierra, Ava, and Chelsi) are being shipped off to remote lands like the Arctic Circle, the Andes Mountains, and Vanuatu, where they will be living with tribespeople.  I just watched MTV’s Sneak Peek for the first episode, and it appears that Sweet Sixteener Amanda is being shipped off to Africa.  While personally I think it would be awesome to live with a Masai village for a week, Miss Amanda does not seem to share this opinion, shrieking, “I am going to be miserable!”

It’s probably too much to hope that the kids actually learn something like, say, compassion, or gratitude from their experiences, but maybe they’ll surprise us.

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